Contemporary Theory Workbook - Book 1

The Contemporary Theory Workbooks are recommended reference material for the AMEB's Contemporary Popular Syllabus

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PART A

	INTERVALS: Prime, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th
	CLEFS: Note naming in Treble, Bass and C Clef (Alto and Tenor Clefs)
	BASIC NOTATIONAL ELEMENTS: Staff, Bar Lines, Leger Lines, Accidentals etc. TIME ELEMENTS: Note Values and their matching rests. Dotted Notes and their matching rests. Time Signatures
	SCALE CONSTRUCTION: Tone and Semitones; the Major Scale Pattern; Key Signature.
	PART B INTERVALS: 6th, 7th and 8th; Harmonic and Melodic Intervals
	CLEFS: Treble, Bass and C Clef (Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano and Baritone Clefs)
	TIME ELEMENTS: 16th notes and rests, Simple Time SCALE CONSTRUCTION: All Major Scales; Key Signature Patterns; Cycle of Fifths; Chromatic Scales
	CHORD CONSTRUCTION: Major and Minor 3rds; Major, Minor, Diminished Augmented and Suspended 4th Triads in Root Position and Inversions
	GENERAL: Degree Numbers and Names; Musical Terms, Signs and Symbols; Repeat Signs.

 

Books One and Two

A practical and commonsense approach to music theory covering all the basics right through to the modes and higher grade information.

The page per lesson format encourages the student to move forward at a page a week pace or faster. (Answers included)

'Each subject is covered in such a way as to flood the student's mind with light. Sprinkled throughout are topics never covered except in encyclopaedias, refreshingly and clearly explained in easily understood statements displaying breadth and clarity. They are simply a must for every student and teacher's library.'

-Neville Thomas O.A.M., Lecturer in Woodwind Studies, Sydney Conservatorium of Music